A $10 billion data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, will employ about 300 people once it is operational.
Meta’s facility, the company announced in February, will represent more than $10 billion in regional investment
At peak construction, the project is expected to support more than 4,000 construction jobs. Once operational, the campus will support about 300 jobs. That works out to one permanent position for every $33 million invested.
Compare that to TSMC’s semiconductor complex in Phoenix, Arizona: TSMC’s total investment of $165 billion in the U.S. is expected to directly create 12,000 jobs once all sites are completed and fully operational, according to the company’s president, Rose Castanares, in an interview cited by TrendForce. That is one job for every $14 million, still capital-heavy but more than twice the labor density of Meta’s data center. The gap gets wider.